bleed

bleed [ blid ] (past tense and past participle bled [ bled ] ) verb *

▸ 1 when blood flows out

▸ 2 when color spreads

▸ 3 make someone pay money

▸ 4 take liquid/gas from something

▸ 5 take blood from someone

1. ) intransitive to have blood flowing from your body, for example from a cut:

I scraped my knee and it's bleeding.

bleed from: He was bleeding from a wound in his shoulder.

bleed heavily/profusely: The victim was dumped by a roadside, bleeding profusely.

bleed to death (=die from losing blood): She would have bled to death if we hadn't found her.

2. ) intransitive if the color in clothing, paper, etc. bleeds, it accidentally spreads

3. ) transitive to make someone pay a lot of money, especially regularly over a long period of time:

He'll try to bleed them for every penny he can get.

bleed someone dry (=take all of someone's money): They were being bled dry by legal fees.

4. ) transitive to remove liquid, gas, chemicals, etc. from a machine's system:

He bled all the oil from the engine before starting work.

5. ) transitive to take blood from someone's body as part of a medical treatment, especially in the past

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